Vijay Bhat

Vijay Bhat is a Mumbai-based specialist in strategy consulting, leadership development, training, group/individual coaching and facilitation. For the last 11 years, he has helped clients, both Indian and international, navigate through major life transitions – organisational and personal.

Previously, Vijay spent 21 years with Ogilvy & Mather in various leadership positions around the world. His last assignment was on Ogilvy’s Asia-Pacific Board as Regional Strategy Director, overseeing Corporate Strategy, Account Planning and Talent Development across 20 Asian countries.

He also counsels and conducts retreats and provides online support for people recovering from cancer, based on his personal encounter with colon-cancer in 2001. Describing himself as a ‘cancer-thriver’, Vijay is the co-author of “My Cancer Is Me: The Journey from Illness to Wholeness”, published in 2013.